In a week of news coverage dominated by the Bergdahl affair, President Obama submitted, “I’m never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington,” before forwarding his administration’s latest rationale as to why he…
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What Makes For-Profit Colleges Different?
Convention has mandated that once a student completes his/her high school studies, one must enroll at a four-year college or university; to begin study at an ivory-tower institution of higher learning marks for many Americans…
‘They Left the Vivid Air Signed with Their Honor’
There’s a famous photograph of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower talking with the men of the 101st Airborne Division in the hours before D-Day. Eisenhower had already set in motion the vast machinery of the greatest invasion…
Tipping Point on Iran
Dr. Matthew Kroenig, associate professor and the international relations field chair at Georgetown University, spoke at a the Heritage Foundation on Iran’s nuclear proliferation efforts and his newest book, A Time to Attack: The Looming…
Future of Conservative Education
As the 2014 midterm elections near, conservative Republicans have found themselves in a situation that demands more than a mere denunciation of President Obama’s policies. There has been no shortage of criticism from the GOP…
Hole in the Diversity Grail
Academia is doubling down on diversity and on anyone who comes near it offering diverse thoughts. A special supplement of The Chronicle of Higher Education features articles entitled: “First-Generation at Georgetown—A broad support system helps…
Extending Common Core
The deputy assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education spoke at the left-wing think tank Center for American Progress this past week. After his remarks, several leaders of afterschool nonprofit programs participated in a panel…
Deconstructing Common Core
On Capitol Hill, the Heritage Foundation recently sponsored a briefing and screening of a movie on Common Core, entitled “Building the Machine.” The movie was funded by the Home School Legal Defense Association and was…
Big STEM Inaccuracy
Throughout America, debates about what to do about the shortage of science, technology, engineering and math graduates have been going on for at least a decade from the halls of Congress to most university campuses….
Obamacare Slams Colleges
In the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter, read about how Obamacare is not only hitting college students with higher health care costs.
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Kutztown Prof Gives Extra Credit For DNC “Volunteers”
As if the line between political organizing and academic pursuits weren’t blurred enough.
YAL Sues Berkeley
Maybe that will get their attention.
Georgetown’s Middle East Bridge to Nowhere
Amid years of reports that Georgetown’s Middle East Studies program was being compromised by apologists for violent extremists, if not outright terrorists, the school has, if anything, doubled down on its approach.
Evergreen State College Student Newspaper has Section that Bars White Student Submissions
A student newspaper at Evergreen State College has a non-white student writing submission section and stands by it.
LGBT Center Administrator Claimed LGBT Centers Perpetuate ‘Homonormative Whiteness’
An assistant director for LGBTQIA programs at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Jonathan Pryor, wrote in an academic journal that LGBT centers like his marginalize LGBT students due to perpetuating “homonormative whiteness.”
Border Wall On Campus
They don’t want one on the southern border of the United States but they’ve already sequestered themselves, at least that’s what Tucker Carlson seemed to suggest to Johns Hopkins University Professor Wendy Osefo.
AAUP: Perceptions v. Reality
Over at the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Brian C. Mitchell asks whether colleges have lost the battle for public perception. His answer, in an academic fashion, is yes. His reasons are academic too:…
Why Johnny Can’t Write, 2017
If you wonder why college graduates can’t write, you might take a look at what their composition teachers cogitate over.
No Quota on Cluelessness @ Harvard
A visiting lecturer at Harvard believes universities need, are you ready for this, more racial quotas.
School Choice Advocate Schools AP
A California school choice advocate took issue with an AP story that school choice leads to segregation.